At no other time in history has the world experienced so much discrepancy between the enormous amount of people who are either obese or face acute starvation. In June of 2008 the United Nations reported that more than one billion people face acute food shortages. Most of...
by Karen Fish If you mow your lawn and cut off the tops of the weeds the weeds will always come back. Unless you get down on your hands and knees with your $2 weeder and pull out the roots of the weeds the...
The monsoon in India is late and all that people can do is pray for rain as water wars break out. "It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of...
opinion by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 208 views | 92 recommendations | 5 comments
64th Anniversary of WWII Test Food Drop Flight, April 29, 2009 Early morning, April 29, 1945 Delayed by horrendous weather for two days, a Lancaster bomber finally rumbled down the runway to begin a dangerous...
created by skintone | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1124 views | 22 recommendations | 7 comments
" Banning order over Famine song A Rangers fan has been given two years probation and a football banning order for singing the 'Famine Song'. William Walls, 20, was found guilty of breach of the peace, aggravated...
Dublin is cracking down on beggars, for the first time since the Potato famine. It's a shame that a few bad apples spoil the bunch, in any kind of situation. "DUBLIN, Ireland - Ireland plans to impose...
created by Mary Richard | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 594 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments
Following Israeli raids that killed around 15 Palestinians within one week, many rockets were fired into Israel in a reprisal of Israeli’s provocation. As usual Israel started to blame Palestinians despite it...
created by Sameh Habeeb | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 129 views | 26 recommendations | 2 comments
An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...
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An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...
created by Sputnic | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 194 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Global Warming Led to 'Black Hawk Down' By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com The writer, while in the US Army, can't remember in my mobilization orders that we had a war on Global...
created by Albert Milliron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2778 views | 37 recommendations | 8 comments
It is not easy to read stories or articles on assistance and solutions to poverty and diseases within Third World countries. This article printed by Gramma International would probably not...
created by rahul | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 200 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
" Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine. A neighbour driven mad by hunger killed her six-year-old daughter and began to...
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An FAO summit held in response to the glopbal food crisis has concluded that the era of cheap food for the Earth is over, and that global food prices are likely to remain high for at least the next decade. This...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 202 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The victims of the Irish Famine are to be remembered in an annual official memorial day, which is to be established in the Republic of Ireland.It is believed that about one million people in Ireland starved in...